Eddie Redmayne Quotes

I don't go to enough movies.

I sure hope there will be more theatre on television and in the movie theaters. I do have to say, the idea of theatre in movie theaters is really exciting to me.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

I don't go to the cinema much.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.

I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in seventh or eighth grade, maybe my first year of high school, and by that time I'd probably seen 'Grease' twice a year every year of my life.

I don't go out a lot. I do go to a lot of movies.

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.